{"id":1005062,"date":"2026-04-27T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005062"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:14:42","slug":"elderly-man-kept-under-digital-arrest-loses-rs-2-crore-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/elderly-man-kept-under-digital-arrest-loses-rs-2-crore-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man kept under digital arrest loses Rs 2 crore in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Another person has fallen prey to digital arrest fraud. A 61-year-old man was duped of Rs 2.07 crore by fraudsters who kept him under digital arrest while impersonating officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate (ED). <\/p>\n<p>Police said, the victim received a call in March from a person claiming to be an officer from the National Data Protection Centre. The caller alleged that the victim\u2019s identity documents were misused by a Mumbai-based person to obtain a SIM card, which was being used to send threat calls, obscene photos and videos, and was also linked to drug trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Another person has fallen prey to digital arrest fraud. A 61-year-old man was duped of Rs 2.07 crore by fraudsters who kept him under digital arrest while impersonating officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate (ED). Police said, the victim received a call in March from a person claiming to be an officer from the National Data Protection Centre. The caller alleged that the victim\u2019s identity documents were misused by a Mumbai-based person to obtain a SIM card, which was being used to send threat calls, obscene photos and videos, and was also linked to drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005082,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005062\/revisions\/1005082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}